finally, before we open up, valerie boyd revered you and she was so happy to too to have that charlayne hunter gault name professorship. and so i just wanted to say that before we it up and charlayne has agreed to take a few questions. and i just have to say, i think about valerie every day. i need to wrapped in rainbow that you got to read book wrapped in rainbows one of the most one. and i heard like i told you live in sarasota i somewhere that she finished came there to write the book so i am trying to find where she lived. i don't know who to ask anymore. i asked her brother and he didn't know. but he said he would try and find out because i want to go there and be inspired by her presence. and we should also say, of course, that valerie edited the journals of alice walker, al spellman, and that book is out to it's amazing. she finished it before she departed. it is an amazing book. so so we can take a few questions. charlayne. and if you don't mind, tell us who you are when you stand up. see some of them as promised, spelman students out there. oh, do you have your hand up? we see, too. well, s